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I've edited the article because bias was demonstrated by use of the words "disastrous" & "failure" to describe "The Yellow Bike
Project". The Yellow Bike Project was the nation's first bike sharing program. It has been copied in other Cities and inspired the development of the multiple bike-share
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In fact, evidence exists to support the theory that The Yellow Bike project inspired development of the open source code known as "the wiki". Portland, Oregon Tech' Entrepreneur, Ward
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s headline and the word "failure" is used in the same article to describe the ultimate fate of the project. The rest of your post is off-topic. This article is about the modern city-backed bikeshare, and the mention of Yellow Bike is only used as a little, tiny piece of context (and thus should be
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Project. In fact, the gag Portlanders played on capitalism still brings smiles to many Portlanders. That's all Tom O'keefe said he expected would result. Others had different ideas.
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